Upcoming Presentations
JULY/AUGUST 2025 ZOOM LIVE ONLINE PLAYSHOP
Dear SE® and Play Therapy Colleagues & Friends,
Due to popular demand, Maggie Kline will present her Conscious Connections Playshop "Trauma Through a Child's Eyes" to accommodate Asian and Australian time zones. This enriching 12-hours chock full of learning is from 9:00AM-12:00PM Saturday & Sunday Beijing/Southeast Asia Time, July 26-27 & August 2-3, 2025 and from 11:00AM-2:00PM Melbourne, Australia Time.
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
This 12-hour Introductory PlayShop cleverly interweaves the basics of Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing with art, movement, attachment play & breathwork in a 2-path model that is easy to implement.
Maggie’s latest book now available!
GOOD NEWS! Maggie Kline‘s new book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools is available on Amazon.
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Taipei, Taiwan
Prague, Czech Republic
Brussels, Belgium
Sydney, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
with Maggie Kline
This 12-hour Introductory Zoom PlayShop cleverly interweaves the basics of Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing with art, movement, attachment play & breathwork in a 2-path model that is easy to implement.
What You Will Learn:
The Resilience Roadmap Model for alleviating symptoms & behaviors, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, nightmares & aggression from ordinary and extraordinary events
“The 8 Essentials of Healthy Attachment” to develop a resilient nervous system with activities for ventral vagal & social-emotional development
Teaching kids & teens sensory (interoceptive) awareness & tracking skills with art, games & breathing to increase emotional regulation through charge/discharge cycles, settling & integration
Case material fusing SE™ Principles, Art & Movement for Individuals, Groups & Classrooms
When: June 21- 23, 2024 10:00-2:00 Pacific Daylight Time
This PlayShop is useful for professionals who wish to integrate the core concepts of SE™ when working with kids and those wishing to deepen their understanding of inner child work with adults. Learning will be a mixture of lectures, videos, experiential activities, and Q&A.
About Your Instructor:
Maggie Kline, LMFT, has been in education since the ’70s, a Family Therapist and School Psychologist since the ‘80s, and a Somatic Experiencing® International Faculty Member since the ’90s. She is the owner of Conscious Connections PlayShops. Maggie is co-author with Peter Levine of Trauma through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. She also wrote Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools, chapters in 4 anthologies, including EMDR for Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children and The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice: Emerging Frameworks for Working with Individuals, Families and Communities for the Australian Childhood Foundation.
Recommended Reading
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline
Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being by Maggie Kline
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience by Peter A. Levine Ph.D. and Maggie Kline